ALLIANCE AUTOMOTIVE PROCUREMENT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-16 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-02
Watchouts
Cash
£25M
+5.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£63M
+26.9% vs 2023
Employees
91
-3.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£43M
+23.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ALLIANCE AUTOMOTIVE PROCUREMENT LIMITED 2016-02-01 → present
- GAU SUPPLY SERVICES LIMITED 2008-12-02 → 2016-02-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,456,382,628 | £1,588,977,982 | |
| Operating profit | £29,371,533 | £36,985,957 | |
| Profit before tax | £35,045,076 | £43,153,606 | |
| Net profit | £27,016,297 | £32,490,465 | |
| Cash | £23,585,298 | £24,953,190 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £49,710,472 | £63,082,524 | |
| Net assets | £49,710,472 | £63,082,524 | |
| Equity | £49,710,472 | £63,082,524 | |
| Average employees | 94 | 91 | |
| Wages | £4,727,809 | £4,832,698 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.0% | 2.3% | |
| Net margin | 1.9% | 2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 59.1% | 58.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.06x | 1.06x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making enquiries, the Directors consider it appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Company financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Group executed 8 acquisitions in 2024 (2023:11).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COOMBES, John Frederick | Director | 2009-12-08 | Jul 1965 | British |
| GALVIN, Cade Ashby | Director | 2025-08-21 | Mar 1986 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOMBES, John Frederick | Secretary | 2008-12-08 | 2025-08-21 |
| COOMBES, John Frederick | Director | 2008-12-08 | 2025-12-31 |
| LAFONT, Jean-Jacques Mathieu | Director | 2008-12-08 | 2025-11-24 |
| NARVINGER, Tobias | Director | 2016-10-10 | 2017-03-31 |
| UNDERWOOD, Richard Douglas | Director | 2008-12-02 | 2008-12-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen Allen Schwarzman | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-11-02 |
| Alliance Automotive Uk Trading Groups Limited | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 70 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-21 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-21 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2021-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-05 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 3
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+9.1%
£1,456,382,628 £1,588,977,982
-
Cash
+5.8%
£23,585,298 £24,953,190
-
Net assets
+26.9%
£49,710,472 £63,082,524
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Employees
-3.2%
94 91
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Operating profit
+25.9%
£29,371,533 £36,985,957
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Profit before tax
+23.1%
£35,045,076 £43,153,606
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Wages
+2.2%
£4,727,809 £4,832,698
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers